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On Tuesday 16 November 2004 17:50, Colin Kingsley wrote: |
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> On Tuesday, November 16, Karltk writes: |
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> > Many (most?) of these are written in bash, a language with the several |
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> > remarkable features, one of them being that writing recursive functions |
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> > is a pain. |
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> This is one more problem that would be avoided with a flat package |
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> repository right? |
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> Furthermore, I have a hunch that a flat structure would make it easier |
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> in the future to move to a multiple repository system, a la debians |
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> numerous apt repositories. I only mention this because I've been told |
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> its one of our goals, I could be mistaken. |
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Well, multiple repositories is inviting mayhem if there is any overlap between |
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them, and possibly even when there is no overlap. The gentoo ebuilds are |
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written in the assumption that only other gentoo ebuilds need to be taken |
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into account (or that people know what they're doing with their overlays), |
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not with the assumption that a lot of base libraries are going to be provided |
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in another tree. |
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Paul |
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Paul de Vrieze |
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Gentoo Developer |
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Mail: pauldv@g.o |
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Homepage: http://www.devrieze.net |
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